NEW GLARUS, WI and NEW YORK, NY - Monday, August 19, 2002 - Broadjam and Billboard.com announced today that they are collaborating to develop a comprehensive online music search portal. The project will offer entertainment and media professionals a trusted single source for accessing, auditioning, and licensing music of all types.

Broadjam - www.broadjam.com - is a leading provider of software, tools, and services for the music publishing industry and counts among its clients some of the world's leading entertainment companies - such as Warner/ Chappell Music and Pressplay - as well as leading independents The Orchard and Pen Music, among others. Broadjam's music classification system, advanced search engine, and database utility provide music publishers of all sizes with the tools needed to efficiently catalog and promote their works online.

Billboard.com is the Internet home of Billboard, the international newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment. Billboard.com is operated by VNU eMedia, a division of Billboard parent VNU Business Media.

The new portal, called Billboard SongSearch^TM powered by Broadjam, will enable music professionals to search and retrieve information on repertoire authorized for inclusion in the service. The service will provide links to existing music publisher Web sites and catalogs. Billboard.com and Broadjam expect to launch the site in the first quarter of 2003.

"Billboard.com has established itself as in the leading Internet destination for music industry information. This new service is being planned in answer to our customers' pressing need for a central source for copyright and music licensing information," said Ken Schlager, vice president of business development for Billboard Music Group. "The Billboard SongSearch will help facilitate music searches for media and entertainment professionals worldwide who need to acquire copyrighted works for a wide variety of commercial purposes, whether for film, television, advertising, or corporate productions."

Subscribers to Billboard SongSearch will gain access to details on specific songs, including copyright ownership, publisher information, and Billboard chart history. Through Broadjam's Song Management System^TM search engine, users will be able to locate songs based on a wide range of search options, such as genre, beats per minute, publisher, lyric content and similar artists. The Billboard SongSearch site will also integrate Billboard's renowned - music chart archive, which dates back to 1955, for comprehensive research.

Billboard.com and Broadjam aim to forge partnerships with all of the major and independent publishers to include their repertoire in the service. Additionally, independent musicians and songwriters will be able to upload their music to the site.

"The Billboard SongSearch powered by Broadjam site will provide a marquee platform for music publishers to deliver their content to the right audience," said Roy Elkins, founder and CEO of Broadjam. "The music industry's undisputed unifier is the Billboard family of news and information services. Together with Billboard, we aim to create a supersite that will serve entertainment and media professionals of all kinds."

About Broadjam
Broadjam, headquartered in New Glarus, Wisconsin, is a leading provider of music publishing software tools and services. The company's proprietary Song Management System is the first unique indexing and multi-criteria search engine and database for the music industry. Broadjam provides Web services, including encoding, cataloguing, and hosting, for music publishers and affiliated industry organizations.

About Billboard and VNU eMedia, Inc.
Billboard magazine is the flagship publication of the Billboard Music Group. The Billboard website, Billboard.com, is operated by VNU eMedia, Inc. (http://www.vnuemedia.com) which manages the web sites, electronic products and digital assets of VNU Business Media. VNU Business Media also includes: VNU Business Publications USA, Inc., an international media company with over 80 leading business publications (including Billboard, Adweek, and The Hollywood Reporter); and VNU Expositions, Inc. which produces more than 100 trade shows, conferences, and special events each year.

VNU Business Media, a subsidiary of VNU, also includes: VNU Media Measurement & Information (Nielsen Media Research, NetRatings, SRDS, Scarborough Research, ACNielsen EDI, and VNU Retail Entertainment Information); and VNU Marketing Information (ACNielsen, Spectra Marketing Systems, Trade Dimensions, MediaPlan, Claritas (USA) and Solucient).

VNU (www.vnu.com) is one of the world's leading media and information companies. Its core activities are marketing information, media measurement & information, business media and directories. VNU is active in more than 100 countries, around the world. The company employs over 35,000 people and has annual revenues of approximately $4 billion.